This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.